Thinking over my eight standards and how screwed up everyone is from their parents’ work, it’s hard for me to think anyone could ever be a truly good parent. You’d have to:
1. Be ready to sacrifice all your life goals for your child’s.
2. Put child rearing as your main occupation and all others second.Â
3. Be the best psychiatrist and councilor around for the lowest cost.Â
4. Have an above-average amount of capital to provide for your child specifically (again, without a primary occupation besides parenting)
5. Be a sage who can answer your child’s every question and yet still encourage their sense of discovery.Â
6. Have an impeccable balance between firm resistance and compassionate understanding when your child inevitably screws up over and over again.Â
7. Understand that there’s no arbitrary age that your child becomes “an adult.”
8. Be willing to go it alone in rearing your child and still do a bang-up job without a partner or other help.













